Fidelio had a long and complicated composition history as Beethoven revised it many times. The original version of the opera premiered in Vienna in 1805 as a three-act version. The following year Beethoven shortened it from three acts to two, and after more work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke the final two-act version was presented in 1814. Beethoven also struggled to get what he felt was the correct overture for the opera writing four different versions. The final version of the overture was written in 1814 and is the one now referred to as the overture to Fidelio, and is most
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